Which salon software has the best AI features?

Answers missed and after-hours calls and books, reschedules and cancels against live availability, suggests add-ons and transfers to a person on request. It also calls unconfirmed guests to confirm. Available since September 2025.

Pricing: Needs the AI Plus package (quote only); voice usage billed by use.

• Zenoti: AI receptionist: “AI Receptionist catches every call your front desk misses and completes the booking end-to-end”
• Zenoti press release: Zenoti launches industry's first AI workforce for the beauty...: “AI Receptionist and AI Concierge are available immediately, with additional AI Agents rolling out later this year.”
• Zenoti pricing page: “You must be on our AI Plus package to leverage our AI Agents.”

Texts back after a missed call and handles booking, rescheduling, cancellations and common questions by SMS, handing off to staff when needed.

Pricing: Part of the HyperConnect module (price not published).

• Zenoti: AI workforce: “Chats like your best front-desk agent. Answers questions, books appointments, handles FAQs.”
• Zenoti help center: Introduction to SmartBot: “In the event of a missed call, SmartBot automatically reaches out via SMS to help with booking, rescheduling, cancellation, or answering common questions.”

Writes campaign content and templates from a few keywords, with adjustable tone and length, for email and SMS in several languages.

• Zenoti help center: Zeenie: “Zeenie generates campaign content and templates using just a few keywords.”
• Zenoti: Zeenie AI powered assistant: “Create personalized, multilingual marketing content and automated email or SMS campaigns effortlessly.”

Drafts a reply to each Google, Facebook or Zenoti review from its sentiment and star rating; staff approve or edit it before it posts.

Pricing: Needs the HyperConnect module. Where: English-language reviews only.

• Zenoti help center: Generate smart responses with Zeenie: “Zenoti uses artificial intelligence to analyze each review’s sentiment, keywords, and star rating. It then generates a personalized response that staff can approve, edit, or replace.”

Answers plain-English questions across more than 350 business measures with the formula behind each answer and a suggested next step. Read only.

Pricing: Paid add-on or part of the AI Workforce; each question uses credits.

• Zenoti: AI business advisor: “Ask any question about your business, get a clear answer with the formula to back it up”
• Zenoti help center: AI business advisor: “Each question and suggested follow-up uses credits.”

Forecasts next week's demand and builds and publishes the staff roster. Zenoti's dynamic pricing and waitlist run on rules you configure and are not marketed as AI.

Pricing: Needs the AI Plus package.

• Zenoti: AI workforce: “Predicts next week’s demand and publishes the roster before the week begins.”
• Zenoti release notes: Release notes Sep 08, 2026: “allows a specific center to use AI Employee Scheduling even when it does not meet one or more standard readiness checks”
• Zenoti pricing page: “Zenoti auto-adjusts your pricing rules, based on demand triggers”

Answers calls 24/7, books, reschedules and cancels in the live Fresha calendar, answers common questions, takes messages or transfers calls, and handles several calls at once. It always says it is an AI.

Pricing: $99.95 a month per location with 200 minutes and 500 messages, then $0.60 a minute and $0.04 a message. Where: Launched May 2026 in English-speaking markets first.

• Fresha: AI concierge: “AI Concierge is an AI-powered phone receptionist built into Fresha.”
• Fresha pricing page: “$99.95 per location, monthly 200 mins included per location, then $0.60 per extra min 500 messages included per location, then $0.04 per extra msg”
• Fresha blog: Fresha AI concierge launch: “AI Concierge will launch across English-speaking markets first, with additional language support rolling out internationally.”

Answers client SMS and in-app messages with the same abilities as on the phone, including booking, and stops as soon as a staff member takes over.

Pricing: Part of the AI Concierge add-on.

• Fresha help center: How AI concierge responds to messages in client connect: “AI Concierge has the same capabilities on chat as it does on the phone.”
• Fresha blog: Fresha AI concierge launch: “manage client messaging across SMS and in-app chat”

An Enhance button in the email and text campaign builders writes or refines the copy with AI.

Pricing: Included; campaign sends billed as usual.

• Fresha help center: Create text message blast campaigns: “Click the mention icon (@) to add client details and Enhance to write your content with AI.”
• Fresha help center: Create email blast campaigns: “Click Enhance to write your content with AI.”

Drafts replies to new Fresha and Google reviews in the business's tone; the owner approves each one or sets rules to post them automatically.

Pricing: Needs the AI Concierge add-on.

• Fresha: Online reputation: “AI reply features require the AI Concierge add-on.”
• Fresha help center: Reply to reviews using AI concierge: “Review and publish each reply yourself, or enable automatic replies so eligible reviews are responded to on your behalf.”

Fresha describes it as AI: when a client asks for a fully booked team member, it moves a flexible any-team-member booking to another qualified person to free the slot. Fresha's smart pricing and waitlist run on rules you set.

Pricing: Included.

• Fresha blog: Fresha AI powered intelligent scheduling beauty wellness: “Dynamic Reassignment, a new AI-powered capability that automatically redistributes flexible appointments between suitable team members in real time.”
• Fresha pricing page: “Smart pricing automatically adjusts your online service prices during specific days and times you set.”
• Fresha: Scheduling: “Fresha's Intelligent Waitlist automatically fills last-minute cancellations”

Answers business calls by voice and books, reschedules and cancels straight into the GlossGenius calendar, collects deposits, enforces cancellation policies, adds callers to the waitlist and hands anything else back to the owner as a task. Works through call forwarding or its own number.

Pricing: Free through November 30, 2026, then $50 a month on any plan with 100 minutes and 200 messages; $0.50 a minute and $0.05 a message beyond. Where: US; single-location accounts only.

• GlossGenius help center: What is reception and how it works: “When a call reaches Reception, it answers by voice and has a real conversation with your client.”
• GlossGenius: Reception: “Optional add-on free until November 30th 2026, then only $50/month.”
• GlossGenius pricing page: “Reception by GlossGenius. Answers every call and replies to every text, 24/7.”
• GlossGenius: Introducing genius AI the company behind glossgenius raises...: “Genius AI serves more than 125,000 U.S. businesses”

Reception also answers client texts sent to its own number and books over text. Texts to the salon's existing number still go to the owner, and there is no website chat or Instagram DM handling.

Pricing: Part of the Reception add-on. Where: US; single-location accounts only.

• GlossGenius help center: What is reception and how it works: “When a client texts, Reception replies over text to answer questions and get them booked.”

An AI writer inside email and text marketing that drafts campaigns (new services, price changes, birthdays, seasonal offers) from a few prompts for the owner to edit and send.

Pricing: Gold and Platinum plans; a limited trial on Standard.

• GlossGenius help center: Your personal marketing assistant: “Your Personal Marketing Assistant is powered by AI technology and designed to help you create effective email and text marketing campaigns.”
• GlossGenius pricing page: “AI Marketing Assistant Limited trial”

Answers questions about your own bookings, sales, clients, staff and retail, builds reports on request, scans the data daily for revenue opportunities and compares you with similar businesses.

Pricing: Limited trial on Standard, 20 questions a month on Gold, unlimited on Platinum.

• GlossGenius: Growth analyst: “Ask anything, or let it run on its own to find revenue for you.”
• GlossGenius pricing page: “Growth Analyst Limited trial 20 queries per month Unlimited queries”
• GlossGenius: AI business tools: “Growth Analyst Live”

GlossGenius markets an AI Waitlist that catches a cancellation and fills the slot from waitlisted clients. Its own waitlist page describes the matching without calling it AI.

Pricing: Gold and Platinum plans.

• GlossGenius: Growth analyst: “Your AI Waitlist catches it first and fills the slot, getting you more appointment revenue.”
• GlossGenius: Waitlist: “a Waitlist that automatically matches waitlisted clients to newly available booking slots for you”

Answers all calls, overflow or after hours, checks availability and books, reschedules or cancels, explains services and policies, and transfers to staff. Each call is logged with a summary, transcript and recording. Set up per location; launched October 1, 2026.

Pricing: Not published (MeevoIQ is quote only).

• Meevo help center: AI Receptionist: “The AI Receptionist, part of MeevoIQ’s Front Desk Advisor, gives your business a new way to assist clients by phone.”
• Meevo press release: Millennium Systems International Launches MeevoIQ a Team of...: “The Front Desk Advisor answers incoming calls, books appointments, and handles rescheduling and cancellations”

Meevo has no AI of its own for texts or web chat. Its partner directory lists Brook by Rozie, an AI concierge that answers calls, texts and web chat and books directly in Meevo.

Pricing: Priced by the partner.

• Meevo: Partner integrations: “By capturing every call, text, and web chat, Brook keeps your book full without adding staff.”

Meevo's Email Marketing, run on Emma and included in every subscription, has an AI assistant that writes and rewrites email content. MeevoIQ's Marketing Advisor separately suggests upsell offers from the salon's service sales.

Pricing: Email Marketing is included in every subscription.

• Meevo help center: Upsell: “You can review AI-generated suggestions based on your business’s service sales or create your own Upsell Opportunities from scratch.”
• Meevo: Marketing suite email marketing: “Create and deliver more email campaigns in less time using Emma’s AI Assistant.”
• Meevo help center: Email Marketing FAQs: “Email Marketing is included with every subscription of Meevo!”

Meevo's product page says built-in AI writes individual review replies in the salon's voice; the help center shows replies assembled from selectable parts and posted to Google and Facebook. The module runs on Yext.

Pricing: Online Presence Management is included from the Essentials plan up.

• Meevo: Marketing suite online presence management: “Use built-in AI to automatically generate individualized review responses leveraging your unique brand voice and data.”
• Meevo help center: Monitoring Reviews: “Respond with Intelligent Review Response: Select the drop-down for each review response component and select the preferred option.”

Meevo presents it as an AI advisor; its help docs describe curated dashboards for sales, payments, bookings and client behavior with period and location comparisons, rather than an assistant you can question. Launched October 1, 2026.

• Meevo help center: MeevoIQ: “MeevoIQ is our revolutionary suite of AI-powered Advisors”
• Meevo press release: Millennium Systems International Launches MeevoIQ a Team of...: “Its Performance Dashboards enable owners to see where the business stands, what needs attention, and where the opportunity is”

A staff-facing booking assistant: staff speak or type a request and it finds and suggests appointment openings using AI and natural language. Meevo's demand-based pricing and waitlist are not marketed as AI.

Pricing: Included in every plan.

• Meevo: Convobar: “Offering AI, voice recognition and natural language understanding, the Convobar ® enables you to speak or type your command”
• Meevo pricing page: “Convobar ® Appointment Assistant with AI and Voice Recognition”
• Meevo: Partner integrations: “REACH.ai is a smart scheduling platform for salons and spas that automatically fills last-minute appointments, cancellations, and quiet times, guaranteed.”

Answers messages from the Vagaro listing page and, with a text marketing plan, texts to the business number: it answers questions, looks up appointments and books, reschedules or cancels, handing off to staff on request. Over SMS it sends a booking link instead of booking directly.

Pricing: $10 a month for one US location; free for a limited time in the UK, Canada and Australia. Where: US, UK, Canada and Australia.

• Vagaro: Vera receptionist: “Vera Receptionist is an AI chatbot in Connect by Vagaro that replies to messages from your Vagaro Listing Page and your text marketing number, even after hours.”
• Vagaro help center: 31806231306779: “United States - $10 per month”
• Vagaro: Business AI: “Add a chat widget that matches your brand. Clients can ask questions, update appointments, and book without leaving your site.”

Writes or polishes email and text campaign copy, with adjustable tone and length.

Pricing: Included in every plan.

• Vagaro help center: Build Your Business With Vagaro AI: “You can also use Vera to improve the messaging in your Email & Text Marketing campaigns.”
• Vagaro: Business AI: “Vagaro AI is included at no additional cost with your Vagaro subscription.”

Generates a reply to a client review on the Vagaro listing page for the owner to post. We found no support for Google reviews.

Pricing: Included.

• Vagaro help center: Respond to Customer Reviews: “Select Enhance with Vera to auto-generate a response with AI.”

Owners, or staff with permission, ask plain-English questions about revenue, top services, new clients and staff appointments and get an answer in seconds.

• Vagaro: Vera reports: “Chat with Vera about your business data and get an answer back in seconds.”
• Vagaro: AI for salons spas fitness businesses: “owners (or those with the right permissions) can type a plain-English question”

Creates discounted promotions for open slots, including last-minute openings in the next 72 hours, and pushes them through the Vagaro Marketplace, Daily Deals, email and push notifications, within the discount limit the owner sets.

Pricing: No subscription: 5% of each booking from an existing client, 20% from a new one.

• Vagaro help center: 18977275777947: “Fill My Books is a growth tool powered by Vera (Vagaro's built-in AI assistant).”
• Vagaro: Fill my books: “There's no monthly subscription for Fill My Books. Instead, there's a per-booking fee (5% for existing customers, 20% for brand-new ones).”

Replies to client texts at any hour, checks the calendar, offers times, books the appointment and collects the deposit.

Pricing: Included in the plan.

• StyleSeat: Pro: “Clients text at midnight. Sage replies, checks your calendar and takes the deposit.”

Sage drafts marketing messages and picks who gets them, then waits for your approval; the plan also includes an AI social post builder.

Pricing: Included in the plan.

• StyleSeat: Pro: “Sage drafts the message, picks who gets it, and waits for your yes. Nothing goes out without you.”
• StyleSeat blog: Styleseat review: “So are the AI social post builder, promotions, a loyalty program, review requests, Smart Waitlists and business analytics.”

Answers questions about your revenue, rebooking and open slots and names the next thing to fix.

Pricing: Included in the plan.

• StyleSeat: Pro: “Ask Sage anything. She reads revenue, rebooking and open slots, then names the one thing to fix next.”

StyleSeat says AI reads your booking patterns and raises prices on your highest-demand slots; you can limit it to new clients or exempt VIPs, and it needs StyleSeat payments.

Pricing: 5.5% of the service, up to $16.50, on smart-priced appointments.

• StyleSeat: Grow your business: “AI reads your booking patterns and lifts your rates when demand peaks, so you earn more without lifting a finger.”
• StyleSeat pricing page: “StyleSeat's data science analyzes your booking patterns, prices, and client behavior to identify when demand exceeds supply.”
• StyleSeat help center: How much does styleseat cost: “Premium Plan - 5.5% of the service cost, $16.50 max.”

Lets clients reply to SMS appointment reminders to confirm, cancel or reschedule, and updates the calendar automatically. It handles existing appointments only, not open questions or new bookings.

Pricing: Included on every plan, including Free. Where: US pages checked.

• Square Appointments (Square for beauty): Messages: “Turn on Square Assistant, an AI-powered tool that answers for you.”
• Square Appointments (Square for beauty) pricing page: “Let customers respond directly to SMS appointment reminders to confirm, cancel, or change their appointment. Your calendar updates automatically with every change.”
• Square Appointments (Square for beauty): Get started with square assistant on appointments: “Square Appointment Free, Plus, and Premium subscribers or Square Messages Free and Plus subscribers.”

In Square Marketing email campaigns, AI writes or rewrites a selected text block; Managerbot (in beta) also drafts campaigns for your approval.

Pricing: Square Plus or Premium, or a Square Marketing subscription.

• Square Appointments (Square for beauty): Create marketing campaigns: “select any of the text blocks on your email and click Generate content to generate text with artificial intelligence (AI).”
• Square Appointments (Square for beauty) press release: Managerbot open beta: “drafting campaign content for the seller to review, edit, and approve before it goes out.”

An AI agent in Square Dashboard and POS that answers questions about your sales, staff and customers, surfaces insights on its own and carries out routine tasks once you approve them.

Pricing: No additional cost. Where: US open beta.

• Square Appointments (Square for beauty) press release: Managerbot open beta: “Managerbot is available now in open beta to most non-franchise food & beverage, retail, and health & beauty US sellers at no additional cost.”
• Square Appointments (Square for beauty): Use ask AI to get insights about your business: “Managerbot is an artificial intelligence (AI) business partner that proactively surfaces important insights and suggestions about your business”
• Square Appointments (Square for beauty): Default: “today announced the UK launch of Square AI, a free, conversational AI assistant”

Drafts staff shift schedules from projected sales and team availability for your approval. Staff shifts only, not client appointments or prices.

Pricing: No additional cost. Where: US open beta.

• Square Appointments (Square for beauty) press release: Managerbot open beta: “Managerbot drafts optimized schedules based on projected sales volume, team availability, and the seller's own staffing requirements.”

Answers calls 24/7, as overflow or only after hours, answers questions from the salon's own Boulevard data, and texts the caller a link to book, reschedule or cancel. It transfers the call or takes a message with an AI summary. It does not book by voice. Any customer can switch it on per location.

Pricing: $125 a month per location for 200 minutes, then $0.60 a minute plus text rates; free August to November 2026.

• Boulevard help center: AI receptionist overview: “Boulevard’s AI Receptionist, Beau, answers incoming phone calls for your business”
• Boulevard help center: AI receptionist frequently asked questions: “AI Receptionist is currently in Beta and gradually being made available to all customers.”
• Boulevard: AI receptionist: “Get started with our AI Receptionist for $125/mo per location for 200 minutes, and just $0.60 per minute over that.”
• Boulevard pricing page: “All AI Receptionist usage in August - November 2026 is free.”

The email campaign builder suggests subject lines and copy and can generate custom images.

Pricing: Included in every plan.

• Boulevard: Boulevard AI: “Boulevard Marketing uses AI to suggest subject lines, email copy, and even generate custom imagery”
• Boulevard help center: Email blasts edit a template: “NOTE: Any content tool marked with green stars indicates that AI features are available to assist you.”

Boulevard describes it as AI that learns the salon's booking rhythm and offers clients the times that best fill calendar gaps.

Pricing: Included in every plan.

• Boulevard: Boulevard AI: “Precision Scheduling learns your business rhythm to predict availability, filling your calendar with the right services, at the right times”
• Boulevard help center search: AI: “our AI Precision Scheduling runs behind the scenes to avoid gaps, maximize revenue”
• Boulevard pricing page

Answers client texts and website chat, texts back missed callers, and books, reschedules and cancels directly in Mindbody from live services, prices and availability, handing off to staff when needed.

Pricing: Included in Ultimate, a paid add-on on Accelerate, not on Starter. Where: US, Canada, Australia, UK, Hong Kong and Singapore at launch.

• Mindbody: AI concierge: “AI Concierge understands natural language, uses live data from your Mindbody account, and can take action by booking, rescheduling, and canceling appointments.”
• Mindbody pricing page: “Get a 24/7 front desk assistant to answer client questions, respond to missed calls, and drive sales.”
• Mindbody press release: Playlist launches AI concierge 247 front desk assistant...: “The product is currently available at no additional cost for Mindbody single-location Ultimate subscribers in the U.S., Canada, Australia, U.K., Hong Kong, and Singapore”

Mindbody's email and text marketing runs on Attentive, which Mindbody says includes AI content creation tools; Mindbody has no AI writer of its own.

Pricing: Included on Ultimate and Ultimate+.

• Mindbody: Attentive SMS email: “near real-time customer segmentation, and AI-powered content creation tools.”
• Mindbody press release: Mindbody and attentive commercial partnership brings...: “Included at no additional cost for Ultimate and Ultimate+ subscribers”

Weekly plain-language performance summaries, flags for clients at risk of leaving and clients likely to spend more, and comparisons with similar businesses. A chat assistant that answers questions about your own data is in beta.

Pricing: Weekly AI Insights, Clients at Risk and Big Spenders in every plan; comparisons on Accelerate and Ultimate.

• Mindbody: Reporting: “Weekly AI Insights, Clients at Risk, and Big Spenders are included on every Mindbody plan tier at no additional cost.”
• Mindbody: Product updates: “Stay on top of your business with a weekly AI-driven summary of your most important metrics, including revenue, utilization, first visits, and new members.”
• Mindbody press release: Playlist launches AI insights giving operators best class...: “Currently in beta, Mindbody's AI Assistant connects with AI Insights features, so operators can ask questions about their business or clients in plain language”

A 24/7 assistant inside Phorest Chat that answers client SMS and WhatsApp messages and books, reschedules, cancels and confirms appointments from live availability, including deposits by payment link. It hands the conversation to staff when unsure. On SMS it only replies to clients the salon has already messaged.

Pricing: Add-on to any plan, price not published; needs Two-Way SMS (included in Elite) or the WhatsApp add-on. Where: US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Finland, the UAE and the Netherlands.

• Phorest: AI features: “Front Desk AI handles scheduling requests and FAQs via SMS & Whatsapp”
• Phorest help center: How does Front Desk AI work with Phorest Chat Two Way SMS...: “Front Desk AI is a 24/7 assistant that works within Phorest Chat.”
• Phorest pricing page: “Give clients faster answers and smoother bookings with AI that supports everyday front-desk conversations, saving your team time without losing the human touch.”
• Phorest help center: How can I report on my AI usage in Phorest: “It's designed to keep usage clear so you won't have any unexpected costs when using AI.”

Writes Facebook and Instagram ad copy inside Phorest's Ads Manager. Phorest's help center describes the generated text as drawn from templates its content team wrote. There is no AI writing for email or SMS campaigns.

Pricing: Ads Manager is in the Elite plan or an add-on (price not published).

• Phorest: AI features: “you can use the AI feature in the tool to generate messaging that will resonate with your target audience”
• Phorest help center: How do I run ads on Facebook and Instagram through Phorest: “Templates are generated from a thoughtfully curated selection created by Phorest's team of content experts.”

Announced, built with Google, as an assistant that answers plain-language questions about the salon's own data. Phorest's AI page says it is coming later this year.

• Phorest: AI features: “Coming later this year: Insights AI”
• Phorest blog: Innovation with a human heart and the future of AI at Phorest: “Imagine being able to ask your business questions about performance, trends, or revenue drivers... and getting clear, actionable answers”

Websites built by Rosy's managed marketing service come with an AI chatbot beside Rosy online booking. Rosy does not say whether the chatbot books on its own.

Pricing: Part of Rosy's paid Salon Marketing Services Pro, price not published.

• Rosy Salon Software: Salon marketing services: “AI Chatbot Assistant”
• Rosy Salon Software homepage: “Meet our new AI-powered marketing platform.”
• Rosy Salon Software: Rosy partners: “REACH.ai is now available with Rosy to automatically fill your appointment book, including slow times & last-minute cancellations using A.I. driven texts and emails”

Rosy's managed marketing service includes a social media platform with AI-Assist; Rosy does not say what the AI writes. The REACH.ai partner also creates emails and picks which clients to send them to.

Pricing: Part of Salon Marketing Services Pro; REACH.ai billed separately.

• Rosy Salon Software: Salon marketing services: “Social Media Management Platform with AI-Assist”
• Rosy Salon Software: Discover the power of AI for enhanced client engagement: “Reach.ai creates stunning emails while giving you total brand control to reach your clients.”

Rosy says the REACH.ai partner's Reputation AI requests reviews after appointments and responds to client feedback.

Pricing: Separate partner add-on, price not published.

• Rosy Salon Software: Discover the power of AI for enhanced client engagement: “Engage your loyal clients post-appointment to generate glowing reviews, respond to their feedback, and gather valuable insights.”
• Rosy Salon Software: Salon marketing services: “We help you build and maintain a strong online reputation with review requests, response tools, and monitoring across platforms like Google, Yelp, and Facebook.”

Reads Rosy booking history and texts and emails clients to fill slow times and last-minute cancellations.

Pricing: Separate partner add-on, price not published.

• Rosy Salon Software: Discover the power of AI for enhanced client engagement: “This smart system automatically fills your calendar by matching clients seeking services with available time slots.”

An AI chat widget on the scheduling page that suggests services and open times from a client's request, answers basic questions from details the owner adds and can offer the waitlist; the client then finishes on the normal checkout. It does not handle texts or DMs, and cannot book classes, packages or gift certificates.

Pricing: Premium plan ($49 a month billed annually, $61 monthly). Where: Replies in English or Spanish.

• Acuity Scheduling help center: Add an AI powered chat widget to your scheduling page: “This AI-powered chatbot recommends services and available time slots to clients based on their preferences.”
• Acuity Scheduling: Introducing the booking assistant: “The Booking Assistant is a new feature on Acuity Scheduling's Premium tier plan, designed to make appointment booking easier for your clients.”
• Acuity Scheduling pricing page: “AI chat bot for clients”

Drafts personalized replies to Google reviews from the DaySmart Salon dashboard.

Pricing: Included from Deluxe Growth ($149 a month); an add-on on Basic and Deluxe.

• DaySmart Salon: Online review management: “We even provide an AI assistant to help you draft professional, personalized responses in seconds”
• DaySmart Salon pricing page: “Deluxe Growth $149 / Month Everything in Deluxe, plus: Text Marketing Two-Way Texting Reputation Management”

DaySmart's company-wide AI page lists Business Advisor for plain-language business questions, with AI coaching planned first for its UK product, Slick. No DaySmart Salon page confirms it is live in the salon product.

• DaySmart Salon: Daysmart AI: “Business Advisor answers business questions in plain language and outlines clear next steps so you can act confidently.”
• DaySmart Salon blog: Daysmart acquires uk salon platform slick: “Building on DaySmart’s existing Business Advisor tool and Slick’s rich industry data set, early AI features are planned to roll out to Slick users in Q2 2026”
• DaySmart Salon blog: Daysmart introduces practical AI to transform small business...: “Business Advisor translates data into clear, actionable decisions”

Kitomba's partner REACH.ai writes email campaigns with AI and sends automated rebooking messages. Kitomba has no AI writing of its own.

Pricing: Charged by REACH.ai on top of Kitomba fees. Where: New Zealand and Australia.

• Kitomba: AI tools for marketing: “REACH.ai will use AI to generate perfect email campaigns, assisting with copywriting and imagery”
• Kitomba pricing page: “Leverage the power of artificial intelligence to automate your marketing with our exclusive integration with REACH.ai in New Zealand and Australia”

Fills cancellations and quiet gaps. When a slot opens, and each morning for the next two weeks, it texts the clients most likely to want it a specific time they can accept in one tap (at most 2 texts per client per 30 days). Rolling out to accounts through October 2026.

Pricing: 5% of each booking it fills, billed weekly; needs Kitomba Pay and Online Bookings. Where: New Zealand and Australia.

• Kitomba: Fully Booked: “Fully Booked is an AI-powered feature in Kitomba salon and spa software that automatically fills cancellations and quiet gaps in your appointment book.”
• Kitomba blog: Fully Booked turn no shows into showstoppers: “Our new Fully Booked feature is here; it fills that appointment slot automatically the moment it opens.”
• Kitomba help center: How to Enable Fully Booked for your Salon: “Fully Booked is being rolled out over the coming weeks and may not be available for your account yet.”

An AI copywriter for hair and beauty that drafts SMS marketing texts and campaign ideas. It sits on Timely's public website, not inside the app: you paste the text into Timely's SMS campaigns.

Pricing: Free; sending SMS campaigns needs Elevate or Innovate, at 5 cents per SMS.

• Timely: AI smart automations: “Try Textie Bestie, Timely's AI SMS generator”
• Timely: SMS campaigns Textie Bestie: “Our AI text generator will help you come up with some texts to get your clients clicking 'Book now'!”
• Timely help center: How to create a one off SMS campaign for requesting Google...: “Textie Bestie, Timely's AI copywriter that can generate messages or brainstorm ideas for your next SMS Campaign.”
• Timely: AI LLM info page: “Textie Bestie - an AI-powered SMS writing tool to help hair and beauty professionals craft messages to send to clients.”

Answers calls when the owner cannot, recognizes returning clients, creates client cards for new callers, books into the Booksy calendar, filters spam calls and texts the owner a summary when a call needs a callback. Appointments with No-Show Protection are not supported yet.

Pricing: Free for at least 12 months for early beta sign-ups; later price not published. Where: US; English and Spanish callers.

• Booksy: AI receptionist beta: “Booksy's automated receptionist picks up when you can't, and books the appointment for you.”

With the REACH.ai integration, clients can reply to a text to confirm or rebook, and REACH answers common client questions automatically.

Pricing: Separate partner add-on, price not published.

• SalonBiz: Reach: “Clients can reply, confirm, and rebook directly from a text, so your team can stay fully booked without having to manually schedule clients.”
• SalonBiz: Integrations: “No. SalonBiz gives you the core tools to run your business, and integrations can be added separately as your needs grow.”

Watches the SalonBiz appointment book and texts or emails the clients most likely to fill a cancellation or gap.

Pricing: Separate partner add-on, price not published.

• SalonBiz: Reach: “REACH.ai monitors your appointment book 24/7 and fills them automatically, so your stylists stay booked and your day stays profitable.”
• SalonBiz blog: Salon automation beyond email confirmations: “REACH.ai is designed to help salons identify clients who may be a good fit for an available appointment and reach out automatically when a spot opens.”